Cleaning up the engine compartment

kidwoo · Mar 21, 2017

My 2016 is the second cat I've owned and the 2010 I had was similar.

What's with the glistening little dust that gets all over the place in these things? It's the pipe insulation right? Can you spray that stuff with that exhaust wrap silicone spray paint to tack it down?

There's also the pipe spray which I guess some turbo springs with fix that?

Are leaky oil pumps a thing? There's oil all over mine. Or is that also the pipe spray just collecting down there? It seemed like my 2010 with the pump gone didn't have a nice coating of crap all over the place down there.

I've owned polaris and skidoo sleds too and neither ever had these problems. Things just stayed way cleaner with both.

sno*jet · Mar 21, 2017

oil in the airbox? i think these pumps seep a bit, or maybe the laydown motor design has a lot of spitback through the TBs? seems like they are kinda hard on reed pedals, just speculating on what ive read round here.

kidwoo · Mar 21, 2017

Yeah the air box is a little greasy. My 2010 was worse in that regard honestly.

I hadn't thought about the airbox leaking though. That would make sense given the location. Thanks!

Vern · Mar 22, 2017

The glistening dust is definitely pipe insulation. I just had to re insulate my 14 at about 2k miles cuz the insulation was pretty much gone and the heat shield was rattling and annoying the crap out of me. I wasn't gonna pay $50-60 for two little pieces of insulation from cat so I went to home Depot and got some furnace duct insulation and redid it. Shields nice and tight now so no more rattling and hopefully no more fiberglass dust.

kidwoo · Mar 22, 2017

Vern said:
The glistening dust is definitely pipe insulation. I just had to re insulate my 14 at about 2k miles cuz the insulation was pretty much gone and the heat shield was rattling and annoying the crap out of me. I wasn't gonna pay $50-60 for two little pieces of insulation from cat so I went to home Depot and got some furnace duct insulation and redid it. Shields nice and tight now so no more rattling and hopefully no more fiberglass dust.

The pink stuff in the silver wrapping?

sledhead685 · Mar 22, 2017

Mine was doing this too, so I took the pipe off and tightened each of the springs to the next notch on the little metal straps that wrap around the pipe. Seems to have helped a bunch with dust and rattle.

boondocker97 · Mar 22, 2017

Just did a chassis swap on my 2014 and the bottom of the pan on the bottom was kind of oily. Mine has the oil injection delete so it had to come from the air box. It's really surprising how something that runs on the snow can get so dirty.

Vern · Mar 22, 2017

kidwoo said:
The pink stuff in the silver wrapping?

Stuff I used was yellow with silver on one side. It was like $12 for a 15 ft roll, much cheaper than oem.

armey37 · Jan 19, 2018

Vern said:
Stuff I used was yellow with silver on one side. It was like $12 for a 15 ft roll, much cheaper than oem.

How’s the Home Depot insulation working out?

snoballssnoglory · Jan 19, 2018

That insulation can have some poor run-ability characteristics. Ask my buddy how he knows. Lol
(This is a piece of stock foam that came off the air box)

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Vern · Jan 19, 2018

armey37 said:
How’s the Home Depot insulation working out?

Still in there

reifnote@msn.com · Jan 20, 2018

Dust from exhaust tuner

In my opinion, the insulation is not fiberglass. It is mineral wool. This can be obtained from Fireplace/Heating stove companies.

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